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SAILOR AT SEA BY 1st. Published 1965 |
A blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine which is lightly bumped top and bottom but corners still sharp. Covers sunned towards top edge and the spine is sunned. Some isolated fox spots to first and last few pages but pages are generally clean and bright. Boards in image below show banding from scanner procedures but except for top edge fading blue is uniform. No inscriptions - endpaper maps excellent condition. Book Condition almost very good!
£13.50 + P & P |
Extract from the Foreword
The ship took part in the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands and the final sinking of the Dresden.
Those battles fought in the remote and isolated waters of South America and each, in its short turn, an overwhelming victory have always caught the imagination. They must have seemed momentous events as viewed by the young Lieutenant Harold Hickling. The Naval history of the First World War will be the richer for his first-hand account of them.
The author has avoided the controversial overtones of political interference with naval strategy and I think it makes for happier reading. Instead, and for the first time, he has brought the Falkland Islanders, many of whom were his friends, and the part they played into the overall picture.
In 1914 the Falkland Islanders were left to their fate for five weeks after Admiral Cradock's defeat at Coronel. The story of `The Kelpers ' who faced so stoically the threat of imminent invasion is here related factually, at times dramatically and not without humour. Coincidentally today, IIth December, is the fiftieth anniversary of the victory of the Falkland Islands : as I write the fortitude of the hundred inhabitants who survive is being commemorated.
The second part of the book concerns the new and more powerful Glasgow in the Second World War. Here the viewpoint has changed, instead of the junior Lieutenant, `the dogsbody' to quote the author, the tale is told by the Captain of the ship.
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Contents
Chapter I. South America—Peacetime
Chapter II. South America—Wartime
Chapter III. Coronel—The Battle .
Chapter IV. The Falkland Islands .
Chapter V. The Battle of the Falkland Islands
Chapter VI. The Spy .
Chapter VII. H.M.S. Irnogen .
Chapter VIII. Scheer Bad Luck
Chapter IX. The Recapture of Berbera
Chapter X. Mulberry Harbour
Chapter XI. Submarined
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Captain John Luce
H.M.S. Glasgow (old) light-cruiser
Pearl Allan aged eighteen
Author as a cadet aged twelve
Glasgow's prize, Santa Catherina .
Government House, Stanley, Falkland Islands
Stanley and inner harbour
Glasgow coaling at Rio de Janeiro August 2nd, 1914
German light cruiser Leipsic .
Cumberland Bay, Juan Fernandez,
Dresden on fire flying white flag
Dresden sinking
Force `1V-6-inch guns .
Royal Sovereign and Revenge
Aircraft-carrier Hermes .
H.M.S. Glasgow (new) in a seaway .
H.M.S. Glasgow V.E.-Day
Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham
H.M.S. Glasgow (new) camouflaged—`you look like two Chinese junks'. .
H.M.S. Anson—author's flagship, 1947 .
Author in his study at Turangi, New Zealand
The Battle of the Falkland Islands
The Battle of Coronel
The Pursuit of the Admiral Scheer
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